Keith Newton

Newton was born in Manchester. He started his career with Blackburn Rovers, initially as an amateur before signing his first professional contract with the club in October 1958. He won the FA Youth Cup with the club in 1959. and first played a League game in the 1960–61 season. Newton went on to play over 300 games for the club. He transferred to Everton in December 1969 for £100,000, which was a record for a defender at the time, and made 12 appearances for them in the latter half of the 1969–70 season, in which Everton won the Football League First Division. Newton moved to Burnley for the 1972–73 season, making his league debut on 12 August 1972 against Carlisle United. He made a total of 209 league appearances for Burnley, his last coming in the 1977–78 season.

Newton made his international debut for England against West Germany in February 1966. He went on to play 27 times for England, including three games at the 1970 World Cup Finals, where, through injury, he gained the distinction of becoming the first England player to be substituted at a World Cup, being replaced by Tommy Wright six minutes into the second half of England's opening match against Romania in Guadalajara. Newton also assisted in both England goals in the Quarter-Final defeat to West Germany.

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Newton, who lived latterly at Wilpshire near Blackburn, had trained as an engineer after attending Didsbury Technical School in Manchester. He later ran a newsagents in Blackburn and was then employed as a sales executive by two motor dealerships in the same town. He died of cancer aged 56 at Blackburn Hospice in June 1998. He left a widow Barbara and one son.